Method of making siding.



T. J. HOUSE. METHOD OF MAKING SIDING. APPLICATION FILED 3.22, 1 10.

' Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

Jfidzzd Inventor Attorneys TIMOTHY J. HOUSE, OF TROY, VERMONT.

METHOD OF MAKING SIDING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 22, 1910.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

Serial No. 556,972.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TIMOTHY J. HOUSE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, in the county of Orleans and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Method of Making Siding, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the wall construction of wooden buildings, and more especially to weather-boarding; and its object is the production of clap-boards or.

siding from partially defective strips of stock and yet without loss.

To this end the invention consists in the method of making such siding as more fully set forth below and illustrated in the drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a diagrammatic end view of a piece of stock showing the cuts made therein by my improved method, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing how the weather-boards produced by my method can be employed in building up a siding.

My method is best illustrated in Fig. 1 which shows diagrammatically an end elevation of a piece of stock slightly defective as by having some bark at the points 15. I have shown a defect on but one face as that is sufficient for purposes of illustration. My method involves cutting an oblique kerf 7 through the piece of stock, and ifone side of the same be perfect this kerf may extend from one inner corner 6 of a groove 3 obliquely through the stock.

Instead of providing a groove in the opposite edge of the piece of stock, I notch or groove one corner as shown by the numeral 1 and in doing so I cut away part of the bark or defect at that edge of the stock and produce a clap-board specifically numbered 17 whereof the oblique face 5" is intended to be exposed and the fiat face 5 which is one side of the piece of stock is to go next the studding; and obviously the defects 15 are thereby hidden as will be seen in Fig. 2. Thus I am enabled to utilize stock which may be slightly defective, and if the defect be more serious along one edge than the other I will naturally place that edge uppermost in Fig. 1 so that the notch 1 will cut out a good part of it. The clap-board 17 thus produced has no less dimension than its companion and is to all intents and purposes identical therewith and capable of the same use, save that in its application-its oblique face 5 must be placed outward.

What is claimed as new is:

The herein described method of making weather-boarding from partially defective stock, the same consisting in longitudinally grooving one edge thereof, sawing an oblique kerf from one corner of the groove through the other edge of the stock so as to produce one perfect clap-board and a second strip which is defective, and notching away the defective corner of said strip between its thicker edge and the initially outer face of said stock.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto ai'IiXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

in TIMOTHY 2 J. HOUSE. mark Witnesses:

E. H. HIToHoooK, G120. A. R001. 

